[[EPZ Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari]] totalitarian state Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 223 >The abstract machine may be defined, for example, more geometrico, or under other conditions by an "axiomatic"; but the State apparatus is neither geometry nor axiomatics: it is only the assemblage of reterritorialization effectuating the overcoding machine within given limits and under given conditions. The most we can say is that the State apparatus trends increasingly to identify with the abstract machine it effectuates. This is where the notion of the totalitarian State becomes meaningful: a State becomes totalitarian when, instead of effectuating, within its own limits, the worldwide overcoding machine, it identifies with it, creating the conditions for "autarky," producing a reterritorialization by "closed vessel," in the artifice of the void (this is never an ideological operation, but rather an economic and political one).